Shoulder baby bottle holder



May 31, 1960 A. H. VARDAN SHOULDER BABY BOTTLE HOLDER Filed Aug. 20, 1959 NVENTOR /q/v/v H. VA Ron/v ATTORNEYS SHOULDER BABY BOTTLE HOLDER Ann H. Vardan, 2554 Clay St., North Sacramento, Calif.

Filed Ang. 20, 1959, Ser. No. 834,992

Claims. (Cl. 248-104) This invention ,relates to a support for holding Va nursing bottle from the shoulder of the person feeding the baby.

An object of the invention is to provide a shoulder support for a nursing bottle which leaves the hands of the person feeding the baby free to do other things than holding the bottle.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a shoulder support for a nursing bottle in which the bottle may occupy either of two positions, a position in which it is not in use and a feeding position.

Still other objects, advantages and improvements will become apparent from the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevational View of the shoulder baby bottle holder in position on the shoulder of the person feeding the baby.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the section line 3-3 of Fig. l, looking in the direction of the arrows, and showing the pivotal feature of the support.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view on the section line 4 4 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows and showing a detail of the bottle securing means.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a modified form of bottle support.

Fig. 6 is `a sectional view on the section line 6-6 of Fig. 5, looking in the direction of the arrows and showing the two rosettes or lugs for holding the bottle in place` Referring now to the drawings in detail and to Fig. 1 in particular, the reference numeral 10 here designates a shoulder strap. This strap is made of spring steel and is suitably contoured to go over the shoulder of the average sized person. The bottle supported is comprised by two complementary discs 11 and 15. The lower or xed discs 11 has its outer section severed part way along chords spaced equally in the opposite sides of a diameter and then outstruck to form a loop 12 of suicient clearance to receive the strip 10 in a friction lit. A rivet 13 is positioned in a suitable hole in the loop 12, at the center of the lower iixed disc 11, and extends likewise through a suitable hole in the upper movable disc 15. Around the end of the rivet 13 there is placed a Washer 14 and the end of the rivet upset or beaded over to hold the disc in frictional engagement. A strip of metal 16 is placed over the rivet 17 and washer 14 and secured in the upper disc by any suitable metallic adhesive. This strip of metal improves the general overall appearance of the device and also discourages persons who like to tinker from attempting to take saine apart. Along one diameter and adjacent its outer edge, the upper movable disc is provided with suitable holes 17-17. A piece of thick-walled tubing 18 of rubber or some composition material, such as Neoprene, has its opposite ends inserted through the holes 17-17 and on the under side of the movable disc 15 pins 19--19 are forced through the tubing, to hold the latter in place. The nursing bottle 20 is held against the movable disc 15 by the resilient tubing 18.

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In use, it will be apparent that the strip 10 may be positioned on the shoulder of the person feeding the baby in any one of several positions. Also, both discs 11 and 15 may be slid lengthwise along the strip 10 to afford further selection of positions. The bottle 20 and the upper disc 15 may be partially rotated relative to the fixed disc 11, to place the bottle in an upward position, while the baby is being removed from his crib and seated in a chair, or held in the persons arms. When ready to start feeding the baby, the bottle 20 and the upper disc 15 are partially rotated to a downward position, as shown in Fig. 1. After the feeding has been finished, or it is desired to interrupt the same temporarily, the bottle 20 and the upper disc 15 may be paritally rotated back to the upward position.

The modification previously described can be used with any type of nipple, but is of greatest utility with nipples of the non-drip variety, since the majority of the latter allow the milk to run through in a continuous stream when the bottle is inverted.

The modification according to Figs. 5 and 6 omits the upper rotatable disc 15. The holes 17-17 for the ends of the resilient tubing 18 are here formed in the Ilower discs 11. Approximately on either side of a fortyve (45) degree line of the lower right sector of the disc 11, there are positioned rosettes or lugs 21. These are made from a metal strip, which is rolled into a hollow cylinder, and secured to the face of the disc in any suitable manner. The rosettes or lugs 21-21 hold the bottle in a convenient position across the shoulders of the person feeding the baby, at the proper angle towards the babys mouth.

The modification according to Figs. 5 and 6 is simpler than that according to Figs. l to 4, inclusive, and is well suited for use with non-drip bottles.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A nursing bottle holder comprised by a shoulder strap, a disc having a loop thereon frictionally receiving said shoulder strap, and resilient means secured in said disc for holding the bottle.

2. A nursing bottle holder comprised by a shoulder strap, a disc having a loop therein frictionally receiving said shoulder strap, resilient means secured to said disc for holding a bottle, and a pair of arcuately spaced lugs on said disc adapted to engage the bottle on opposite sides of the latter.

3. A nursing bottle holder comprised by a shoulder strap, a disc secured on said shoulder strap, a complementary disc pivotally secured to said iirst disc, and resilient means secured to said second disc for holding a bottle.

4. A nursing bottle holder comprised by a shoulder strap, a disc having a loop therein frictionally receiving said shoulder strap, a complementary disc pivotally secured in frictional engagement to said rst disc, and resilient means secured to said second disc for holding a bottle.

5. A nursing bottle holder comprised by a shoulder strap, a disc having a loop therein frictionally receiving said shoulder strap, a complementary disc, pivot means extending through said loop and said second disc for holding the disc in rotatable frictional engagement, and sectional means secured to said second disc for holding a bottle.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,222,246 Schumacher Apr. 10, 1917 2,822,433 Sanford Feb. 4, 1958 2,893,672 Vardan July 7, 1959 

